Bearings

[Kake America]

This is my new favorite thread! Thanks for the info. I’m only 4000 miles in but the roads here are muddy and full of potholes. One of the first things I did was replace the front springs. How are yours holding up?

 

[derbuechsenmacher]

For what its worth I’ve always used belray marine grease on all my bearings (including several boat trailers) and have had great success. I used it on my Porsche race car which got repacked after every other outin (overkill, but it was a race car). One tub lasted me over 8 years of the race car, car haulers (tandem axel), boat trailers etc. On the trailers I used bearing buddies which give a zerk fitting that made maintenance much easier. I’m going to be doing my rear locker in the next week and will be repacking all the axels as well as doing a “nut and bolt” on the entire vehicle (did that on the race care every other outing. Racing is a time consuming hobby (not cheap either). I always figured on 5 hours maintenance for every 30 minutes of track time...

 

[bordercollie]

Here are the part #'s that we are using since the factory bearings are so hard to get:
Inner Bearing Race: TIMKEN 24720
Inner Bearing: TIMKEN 24780
Outer Bearing w/race: TIMKEN TKA35 or A35
Seal: TIMKEN 472015 (The factory seal is a triple lip design but these work, all your trying to do is keep water/dirt out and grease in)

Hope this helps

Thank you !